Battery now Caput?

Alshymer said:
I bought locally in the end
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I'm not sure whether this is wise, but what I would do it to charge the old battery you've taken off on a nice slow trickle charger for three or four days.
Check the voltage after you have disconnected the charger (should be above 12.8v), then leave it for a few days and check the voltage again.

If the voltage is still above 12.6v, keep it for an emergency spare.

If the voltage has fallen lower, sell the battery to the scrap man. Should be worth 10 to 15 euros.
 
Geek said:
I'm not sure whether this is wise, but what I would do it to charge the old battery you've taken off on a nice slow trickle charger for three or four days.
Check the voltage after you have disconnected the charger (should be above 12.8v), then leave it for a few days and check the voltage again.

If the voltage is still above 12.6v, keep it for an emergency spare.

If the voltage has fallen lower, sell the battery to the scrap man. Should be worth 10 to 15 euros.
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More likely to take it to the scrap man for 20€!!😂😂
 
Just one more point. The old battery had a pipe coming out of it, the new one doesn’t.
I thought the old one was a sealed unit!!
 
Alshymer said:
What about this then although need positive on the left but think it will turn.View attachment 207924
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That's what our auto electrician fitted for us in November 2021; still going strong 27,500 miles later [but is fed by an Ablemail AMT12-2 Trickle Charger - brilliant piece of kit]. The auto electrician was a Bosch Area Manager and said [as near verbatim as I can recall], 'Bosch make some great tools and machines, but their batteries are not great; Yuasa are much, much better'. I was going to change the Yuasa in November, but may delay; it has never missed a beat, whether left for 3 days or 6 weeks - not even a hint of any reluctance - first flick of the key and the engine roars into life; if only my body was the same!

Steve
 
marchie said:
That's what our auto electrician fitted for us in November 2021; still going strong 27,500 miles later [but is fed by an Ablemail AMT12-2 Trickle Charger - brilliant piece of kit]. The auto electrician was a Bosch Area Manager and said [as near verbatim as I can recall], 'Bosch make some great tools and machines, but their batteries are not great; Yuasa are much, much better'. I was going to change the Yuasa in November, but may delay; it has never missed a beat, whether left for 3 days or 6 weeks - not even a hint of any reluctance - first flick of the key and the engine roars into life; if only my body was the same!

Steve
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Perhaps you're inserting key in the wrong place
 
Alshymer said:
Just one more point. The old battery had a pipe coming out of it, the new one doesn’t.
I thought the old one was a sealed unit!!
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There is usually a place to fit a vent pipe, covered by a plastic plug, often a red one.
Whether you need one depends on where te battery is located.
Under the bonnet, probably not needed.
Under the driver's seat, you ought to have one.
Even sealed batteries can release gases under certain fault conditions
 
Geek said:
There is usually a place to fit a vent pipe, covered by a plastic plug, often a red one.
Whether you need one depends on where te battery is located.
Under the bonnet, probably not needed.
Under the driver's seat, you ought to have one.
Even sealed batteries can release gases under certain fault conditions
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Thanks for that. I had Googled that and found that there is actually a hole in the battery compartment for the pipe to fit into.
I certainly didn’t know that last time I changed the battery!!
One just takes the battery out and then finds the pipe dangling!!
I shall know next time.
Thanks for your reply.
 
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